GoDaddy Pro Newsletter highlights of 2017

Our weekly GoDaddy Pro Newsletter goes out every Monday morning with special announcements and a recap of the latest blog posts written for web designers and developers. I also sneak in a little recommendation at the end. It’s usually interesting news or a helpful resource that caught my eye during the previous week.

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If you’re not already subscribed to the newsletter, you’ve been missing out. (Sorry about that.) But, considering the time of year, I thought it’d be nice to put together a little list and look back on everything that’s been shared since January.

In need of some color inspiration for a new project? Check out Design Seeds, a blog that catalogues beautiful imagery and corresponding color swatches.

These UX Flowchart Cards are an excellent addition to any in-person website planning workshop. Each card represents a mini-wireframe of a webpage. Use them to jumpstart your next site design or UX flow.

Unsplash is a massive image library full of 100-percent free, high-res, use-it-for-anything, creative-commons-licensed work from a global community of photographers. Unsplash 5.0 adds profile following, push notifications, a blog-like “stories” feature, improved performance, and new Unsplash Local meetups. Kudos to the Unsplash team for transforming a neat Tumblr project into a successful standalone product and community.

If you’re using the iThemes Security plugin to secure your WordPress sites, take a look at their recently released settings checklist. It’s a helpful resource for making sure you’re configuring iThemes Security properly.

If you’re looking for more in-depth developer tutorials, Scotch has you covered. Their recently-revamped site includes video courses, written tutorials, and a bustling community blog.

Working with a local brick n’ mortar business? Bookmark the Local SEO Checklist and review it before the site goes live.

By pulling Search Console and Google Analytics data into Google Sheets, you can see a correlation between the keywords you rank for and the pages that attract organic search traffic. Sound good? Here’s the step-by-step guide on how to do it. (Don’t forget to read the comments!)

According to Free, Fee or Flee, “Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether a project is worth doing or if a client is just taking advantage of your eagerness to work.” Use this tool to figure out if you should work for free, charge a fee, or flee for the hills.

If you’re a fan of using markdown for writing, consider bookmarking this Markdown Cheatsheet from Adam Pritchard. It’s comprehensive without being exhaustive.

Thoughtful reads

“In Praise of the Home Office” is a thoughtful and almost poetic narrative on the experience of working from home. As an author and award-winning journalist, “Mike Sager has spent the last 40 years plying his craft from his home office, working away on a 63-year-old desk that used to belong to his father.”

Focus on what you do best and outsource the rest. Suzanne Scacca says, “If you want to be the one to deliver those high-end results, then you’ll need to focus on playing to your strengths and be comfortable entrusting everything else to others.”

Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is always an enlightening read. Highlights for 2017 include the decline in global smartphone sales; a growing use of voice in online searches; wearables going mainstream in the U.S.; and India’s internet usage is increasing rapidly.

Stuck on a problem? Martin Brennan, Customer Support Lead from Intercom, says, “Take 15 minutes to solve the problem any way you can. However, if you don’t have an answer after 15 minutes, you must ask someone.” Read the rest of the article, “Learn the value of self-sufficiency by following the 15 Minute Rule.”

From our colleagues at ManageWP: A step-by-step breakdown of how to create a monthly maintenance plan for your WordPress websites.

While you might remember Microsoft FrontPage for its less-than-stellar HTML output, it was created for a noble purpose: To give everyone the means to publish online. Here’s the origin story, courtesy of Tedium.

Beaver Builder is one of the most popular page builder plugins for WordPress, and the 2.0 release introduced a radical overhaul of the editor experience. Check out their September update for more details.

We launched a new GoDaddy Reseller Store plugin for WordPress. You can grab it now from the WordPress.org plugin directory. “You can import your product catalog, complete with your pricing, preferred currency and language. You can also use key features like domain search and cart widgets.”

What are you looking for in 2018?

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